A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

You are all a lost generation.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observedFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

The spirit of advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything

A lot of artists that I've met let me know they're huge fans of mine.

You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.

Don’t try to be anybody else because that’s what makes you not swaggy.

Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.

We should have a very limited federal government.

I'm actually an athiest. That's kind of deep you must admit.